Monday, October 15, 2012

vocabulary #8



Abeyance: temporary inactivity
Ambivalent: simultaneous/contradictory feelings
Beleaguer: trouble
Carte blanche: Complete freedom to one
cataclysm: 
A large-scale and violent event
Debauch: corrupt.
Éclat: enthusiastic approval
Fastidious: difficult to please
Gambol: Run or jump playfully
Imbue: influence as if by dyeing
Inchoate: being only partly in existence or operation
Lampoon: publicly criticize by using sarcasm
Malleable: easily influenced
Nemesis: inescapable agent of someone's /something's downfall
Opt: to make a choice especially in favor of something
Philistine: person guided by materialism
Picaresque: being a type of fiction dealing with the episodic adventures of a usually roguish protagonist
Queasy: causing nausea
Savior-faire: the ability to say or do the right thing

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